The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...

Two details from the book of Deuteronomy provide the key. The first has to do with the liberation of slaves: If a fellow Hebrew, man or woman, is sold to you, they shall serve for you for six ...

In my recent book on early Israel I characterize the ... but there is a sort of egalitarianism in the Hebrew Bible: "Every man under his own fig tree, equal in the eyes of Yahweh." ...

found only here and in the Noah narrative in the whole Hebrew Bible), and his as-yet unnamed sister stations herself by Nile River (2:4) to learn what will happen next, and, as it transpires ...

It provides a thematic journey through the library’s collections, sharing anecdotes about the works and the people behind ...